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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Afghanistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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